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Summary: sci-fi/fantasy for all ages
Review: Imagine waking up from a coma with a different body...that's just what happened to Eva. After a terrible car accident Eva is not longer a pretty 13 year old she remembers.Her parents try and prepare her for the shock, they try and explain that was the only way she could survive. They explain as zoologists they wanted to try an experiment. Her brain will remain, only her body changed...when Eva looks into the mirror she now sees a chimpanzee. What a great book that just sparks hours and hours of thinking and discussion.
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Summary: Eva is a wonderful, provocative book for teenagers.
Review: It's one of the best books I've read in a long time. While being highly entertaining, it
addresses important moral issues. Eva is a young teenager whose body has been
mangled beyond repair in a terrible car accident. It is assumed that this book takes
place in the future, when scientists have highly advanced technology. They can save Eva's
mind and soul, by putting in the body of a chimp. Peter Dickenson takes us on a fascinating journey told through the eyes of Eva. You won't be able to put it down.
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Summary: Eva is a wonderful, provocative book for teenagers.
Review: It's one of the best books I've read in a long time. While being highly entertaining, itaddresses important moral issues. Eva is a young teenager whose body has been mangled beyond repair in a terrible car accident. It is assumed that this book takes place in the future, when scientists have highly advanced technology. They can save Eva's mind and soul, by putting in the body of a chimp. Peter Dickenson takes us on a fascinating journey told through the eyes of Eva. You won't be able to put it down.
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Summary: Highly reccommended
Review: Peter Dickinson's characters are so realistic it's almost impossible to believe that they aren't real people. His storytelling draws you in, and haunts you long after you've put the book down. Set in a convincing, overpopulated world, EVA raises questions about how far science should go to preserve human life.
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Summary: A love story, dedicated to Jane Goodall
Review: Powerful writing; definitely moving, gripping, challenging. Anyone who thinks of themself as an environmentalist or animal lover ought to read this one. Too bad it's perceived as a "young adult" book so most adults will never know about it. But I think you will thank whoever turns you on to this one. You know what it's about, by now. But what you might not pick up on is that it's a love story - I felt this every page. A love story of chimps, of "wilderness" and "wildness," and of human beings, too. The whole sorry mess of it, from the future's standpoint. (God, I hope it's not ours.) It might just leave you the better for having read it, too. Forget Daniel Quinn's polemic "Ishmael" - this has the ring of some kind of mythic truth to it, if not literal. Dickinson dedicated it to Jane Goodall; I can only think she'd love it. The writing may be too sophisticated/intelligent for some - there's no attempt to write "down" to the readership; this is not light, "entertainment" reading, for all it's gripping entertainment. Much of the sentiments are subtle, as if by a tacit understanding between reader & writer that is somewhat akin to Eva's and Kelly's (although ours, at least, is by choice): we host the book in our minds as a kind of bridge. Its main character and her ideas cohabit with our own. I also liked, a lot, how the author lifted the stones of our civilization, turned them over, and uncovered moral and ethical dilemmas... and then left them for us to examine, wiggling like grubs, helplessly in the light of day. When you finish this book, you will know something about yourself. And I think you will add something to yourself. Literally, I advise you: see what you think.
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Summary: Fabulous for teenagers/everyone--Dickinson's best non-adult
Review: See the other reviews--Eva has accident, has brain transplant, etc. The plot facts simply don't capture the wonder and horror of this book. I had to stop reading and just gasp when I understood what had been done in the operation--it was a complete surprise to me. Dickinson is like Avi with two extra pounds of creativity in his brain. The portrayal of Eva's developing isolation, her celebrity, her acts to gain freedom, and her passing on of culture to the apes is affecting and novel. I didn't really like the portrayal of the decline of humanity--it was too simplistic and predictable, though perhaps OK in a teen's book with other things going on. I have two other comments: first, think of this as an analogy to puberty/adolescence as some if not most teens go through it--a scary image. Second, see Dickinson's (more) adult mystery The Poison Oracle for an interestingly different perspective on the chimp-human phenomenon.
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Summary: Could have been much better.
Review: The author brought up some interesting concepts that could have been made into a really good story, so I was excited to read it. (I love reading and I read all the time.) But he didn't do enough with these concepts and it was unsatisfying. Some parts were interesting and made you want to read more, but then it got boring again. It was ALMOST a good book. It was quite depressing as well--practically all animals are extinct, and humans are spontaneously commiting suicide (yeah, right)! The technology and science weren't really believable. I couldn't believe that Eva would become that much like a chimp when the scientists said they erased all of Kelly's memory. And since they didn't transplant Eva's actual brain (they just "programmed in her neuron pathways" or something), why did the chimp become Eva herself, instead of Kelly thinking like Eva? I am a real fan of Peter Dickinson's great book A Bone From A Dry Sea, so I'm hoping others of his will be better.
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Summary: this book is awesome!
Review: this book is great! it keeps you hooked because of the plot, one that keeps you thinking. book lovers of any genre will like this book, for it has a little bit of everything. "eva" is an outstanding book and i'd recommend it to anybody! it really makes you think about what our future is, as humans. the world eva lives in is hard to imagine, but could very well be the earth's future. READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: a weird and interesting book!!!!!!
Review: This book is weird. It is about a young girl named Eva. She was hurt severly in a car accident. She imediatly was put into a coma. Something saves her, and what is it? A chimp, she is given body parts of a chimp! This story may shock and amaze you as you read about how Eva tries to recover from this accident. When she awakes you will learn lots about her, and about how she wants to live a new life. I am not quite done with this book, but so far it is very interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: What is our future going to be?
Review: This book really made me contemplate what I think could be the answer to that question. Are we really going to festroy everything thats truly valuble, including our sleves. I think this novel had many intresting and well-thought through themes, such as the one mentioned above. It deals with one persons own feelings and dealing with a completly nw identity and way of life, but it also deals with society and humanity as a whole, and the outcome of what we will be if we continue on the path we are following. I urge anyone to read this book, no matter their favorite kind of genre. It is exceptionally good, and makes a point we all need to hear.
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